Amazing Interview with Hitchcock

In this interview Alfred Hitchcock, the most fascinating director educates us on the power of cinema. Hitchcock talks about films being a medium that the all audiences of many cultures can enjoy. He mentions that his main target audience for horror was women. He saw that wwomen were more ‘frightened’ and made up 80% of his audience. He stresses that his main goal was creating ‘evil on camera’ and the way he always challenged clichés in cinema. He believed in ‘putting horror in the mind of the audience and not necessarily on the screen’. Towards the end he speaks of Psycho and the content being amusing rather than terrifying and leaving the tension build only in the mind of the viewer, allowing this to transfer the tension that is temporarily there at the beginning. Similarly, I consider horror to be more effective when there is mystery. It’s more a case of what you don’t see than what you see, because this let’s our imaginations run wild.

The following is entirely about Psycho and the effects that music and orchestra have on a scene.